I'm beginning to understand my problem better after thinking about it
for a bit and doing a lot of reading. There are two large issues, I think:
1) organizing the content on our pages so that there is reasonable
linking from page to page within the wiki, and
2) taking advantage of built-in PmWiki features to generate lists of
pages like indexes or tables of contents in a book.
Item 1 is something which I have to face by myself. But, item 2 is
where, with a better understanding of PmWiki, I should be able to
accomplish something useful.
I'm getting the impression from the documentation that Categories might
be a deprecated concept, in favour of page lists. I certainly don't
understand all of the ins and outs of Categories, but here's my simple view:
- a page can be a member of more than one category
- You can get a list of all pages in a given category by using a link
ending in Category.xxx (but it seems to be just a list of links to pages
in that category - you don't get to see the summary, for example)
- The category can be used in the "link=" option in a pagelist directive
to help select pages
Is there anything else useful to be gained by using categories? I'm
beginning to think that I should abandon the small investment that I
already have in them and move over to pagelists instead. But I do
understand that they are to some extent apples and oranges.
Thanks
Peter
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